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Bounding Into Comics reliably reports that Arktoons is already a success:

According to Vox Day, the digital platform has been a success already.

In an email correspondence with Bounding Into Comics, Day touted that the Arktoons platform “is already averaging over 20k daily pageviews and expects to easily exceed 1 million pageviews in its first month of operation.”

As for the four new titles released today they include The Awakener, Chuck Dixon’s Avalon, Ben Garrison, and Ember War.

In seven days, Arkhaven and its allies have released 31 episodes of 30 different series. This is roughly the equivalent of more than six individual comics issues, or an omnibus of over 150 pages. All of these series will be continuing on a weekly basis, and we already have several new series being prepared for release this month.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be adding features and gradually improving the site. For example, just this morning, the devs added the ability to like a comic at the bottom of the page, once you’ve finished reading it. There are literally dozens of large and small features planned, as well as various improvements to the infrastructure. If you want to support Arktoons, you can do so by subscribing.

Now I, for one, would like to denounce and deplore the anti-democratic violence exhibited in the new Arktoons series called THE AWAKENER. I feel very strongly that if the gentleman in question disagreed with the policies and voting records of Deputy Gama and Senators Borges and Azalin, then he should have vooted harder and written a stern letter to his duly-elected representative instead of resorting to the use of what was almost certainly an illegal and unregistered firearm.

Thank you. Please clap.

Bounding Into Comics has the story:

YouTube personality RazörFist endorsed the newly launched digital comics platform Arktoons as the site added four new series on Monday, May 3rd.

Arktoons is a free-to-view digital comics platform that allows readers to view comics in a top down format similar to Webtoons. It can be found at Arkhaven.com.

The site, while free-to-view, does have a subscription offering with plans ranging from $5 to $50. It does not feature ads and according to the site’s Lead Editor Vox Day it has no plans to ever feature ads.

As for RazörFist’s endorsement, the YouTuber tweeted, “I just clicked on one of the Arkstoons comics, and it opened with a Rand quote about socialism, followed by a complete worldwide death toll of every Communist dictator.”

He added, “I do believe I found the right publisher. Arkhaven.com.”

The comic in question is from Brazilian publisher Super Prumo’s The Hammer of Freedom.

While The Hammer of Freedom might be Arktoons’ most read series, the platform rolled out four new challengers today including Cosmic Warrior, Big Bear’s Big Comic, Gun Ghoul, and Chuck Dixon Presents: War.

It’s very encouraging to see people beginning to sit up and take notice of the fact that Arktoons not only exists, but features content that is manifestly different that what the rest of the comics industry has on offer. And there is now the equivalent of an entire omnibus – about six issues – worth of content on the site already, with new episodes coming literally every day.

On a technical note, the dev team has fixed the “missing panel” problem that affected four of the 26 series.

 Bounding Into Comics reports on the latest additions at Arktoons:

Arktoons continues to roll out new titles at Arkhaven.com with four new titles coming out every Saturday beginning today.

These four new titles join 14 other titles that were rolled out beginning on Wednesday, bringing the total series on the digital comics platform up to 18.

If you haven’t been following our Arktoons coverage, it is a free-to-view digital comics platform that releases new episodes of comics every single week day…. Saturday will feature Chuck Dixon Presents: Comedy, Clockwork Dancer, Quantum Dancer, and Seasons.

Read the whole thing there. Then visit Arktoons. 

 It will probably not surprise you to learn that Bounding Into Comics has the exclusive story:

Arktoons continues to roll out new titles to the digital comics platform found at Arkhaven.com.

Arktoons is a free-to-view website, meaning all episodes are free to read. New episodes of each series are released weekly. In fact, there are new episodes for a variety of titles on every single day of the week.

While all the comics and series are free-to-view, you can support the platform and the comics creation through a subscription. There are currently four options ranging from $5 to $50. It is not a requirement to subscribe in order to read the comics.

After releasing 10 titles in its first two days including Alt-Hero Q, Midnight’s War, The Hammer of Freedom, A Throne of Bones, Ascendant, and Flying Sparks among others, Arktoons announced four new titles.

Those four new titles are Hypergamouse, Right Ho Jeeves, Dynamite Thor, and Shade.

While there are a few technical infelicities, particularly on mobile, the platform has proven to be entirely stable. Traffic is already 3x that of Day One, which bodes well as it appears that the positive word of mouth is beginning to take effect. 

Thursday’s winner was A Throne of Bones, although Ascendant was a strong number two and Chuck Dixon Presents: Adventure proved to be surprisingly popular. The production team did a stellar job with The Frogmen, as they almost flawlessly replicated the old-style dialogue balloons in a manner that is actually legible at 1080 resolution.

Bounding Into Comics has the story:

Arktoons Releases 5 New Titles Including A Classic Golden Age Tale As Part Of Chuck Dixon Presents

A day after Arktoons officially launched on Arkhaven.com with five new titles, they revealed five more titles today including three surprise titles that had not been previously announced.

Arktoons is a free-to-view website, meaning all episodes are free to read. New episodes of each series are released weekly. You can support the platform through a subscription. There are currently four options ranging from $5 to $50. However, it is not a requirement to subscribe in order to read the comics.

The site launched with Alt-Hero, Midnight’s War, The Hammer of Freedom, Go, Monster Go, and Deus Vult. It has now added five more titles including Alt-Hero Q, Ascendant, A Throne of Bones, Flying Sparks, and Chuck Dixon Presents: Adventure.

Read the whole thing there. Impact Day was a complete success, and now the production team is cheerfully throwing more coal in the engine, as it’s apparent that the Chuck Dixon Presents line, which was the brainchild of the team leader, is a successful approach to introducing Golden Age comics to a modern audience that hates the convergence of modern mainstream comics.

There are a few issues we have to address, such as the occasional missing panel, and people are already asking about mobile and television apps – below is a photo of Midnight’s War on a reader’s 60-inch screen and it looks great – but some of our technical advantages are already paying off by reducing the amount of time required to publish a completed episode. 

Still, in the end, it’s all about the content, and now the site is beginning to start to look just a little bit populated. There are even multiple series per genre now, which is cool to see. And tomorrow, there will be still more new series to announce.

 EXTERIOR. Day. A Jurassic jungle. 

Dinosaurs amble about doing nothing in particular. A light flashes across the sky. A few dinosaurs look up at the light, but most don’t even notice. In the distance, somewhere far beyond the horizon, there is a faint booming sound.

MARVELSAURUS REX: What was that?

DEECEEATOPS: What was what?

DARKEQUESAURUS: Wha? I didn’t see nothin’!

MARVELSAURUS REX: I just… I just have a very bad feeling about this.

And…scene!

A writer who is almost entirely unfamiliar with comics sent me the following email two days ago, which demonstrates that unlike the independent comic scene and its mainstream peers, Marvel is already beginning to grasp that Arkhaven’s new digital comics site, Arktoons, poses a serious existential threat to the mainstream comics industry:

I was in [top ten US city by population] recently, and dropped into a comic book store to see what they looked like. I’ve never been into comics at all, so this is a new field to me.

The manager was having a discussion behind the cash register with two of his staff, and I couldn’t help overhearing their conversation as I looked around.  Paraphrased, the manager was telling them that Marvel was “very unhappy” about the new Arktoons initiative, coming as it does on top of the Arkhaven Comics venture.  The money quote was something like, “They say the industry’s overcrowded and underfunded enough as it is – we don’t need more competition trying to muscle in and make everybody unprofitable”.

Arktoons is already making an impact, along with Arkhaven.  Congratulations!

I’m genuinely impressed that someone at Marvel managed to figure out the situation so quickly. They realize that none of the market leaders will be able to even begin to compete with high-quality independent comics offering a 30x value proposition to their readers. It could take a year, it could take five years, but it’s just a matter of the inevitable playing out over time now.

Meanwhile, DC is too busy slitting its own metaphorical wrists to even notice that its extinction event just took place.

New intel suggests DC Films President Walter Hamada has one job WarnerMedia expects him to accomplish: produce projects on the cheap to keep costs down. Sadly, this could mean the end of the Snyderverse.

A source close to Small Screen gave the site a full scoop that details Warner’s goals, Hamada’s task, and how JJ Abrams’ and his firm Bad Robot fits in to their plan. Long story short, Hamada is allegedly counting on Bad Robot to do most of the heavy lifting and take over operations of DC behind and in front of the camera.

“What I can tell you is that the last I heard, Walter wanted to hand over almost all the DC stuff over to BR [Bad Robot],” said the source. 

JJ Abrams is a serial killer of popular franchises. It’s at the point where I’m beginning to wonder if he is a secret agent in the employ of the Chinese movie industry on a mission to destroy the Hellmouth. 

Impact Day was entirely successful, as Episode 1 of THE HAMMER OF FREEDOM eked out a surprise victory on the popularity front, beating out Episode 1 of MIDNIGHT’S WAR by just 2 likes. This was a bit of a surprise, to be honest, as prior to launch, most of the team felt that MW and AH would be the most popular, with GO MONSTER GO! having an outside shot at the Day One title simply by virtue of being created and written by The Legend.  And DEUS VULT more than held its own.

This just testifies to what a strong lineup is being featured on Wednesdays. But as you’ll see later today, the Thursday lineup is very nearly as formidable. And if this inspires those of you with soft hearts to help those poor converged dinosaurs go extinct sooner rather than later, don’t hesitate to subscribe to Arktoons.

So congratulations to Luciano and the Super Prumo team for winning Day One. As a consolation prize, however, MIDNIGHT’S WAR does already boast its own fan-created Heroforge version of Andre St. Jean, the iconic Knight of St. Michael and the Catacombs of Rome.

NOTE TO SUBSCRIBERS: You have absolutely no need to log in to the Arktoons site. The login there is for the creators and publishers. To read the comics, just click on them. When subscription-dependent features are added, such as comments and ratings, you will be informed.

The Asteroid has landed! Bounding Into Comics has the story:

The site, found at Arkhaven.com, launched with five series including Alt-Hero, Midnight’s War, Deus Vult, The Hammer of Freedom, and Go, Monster Go. Each of these titles will release new episodes every Wednesday.

In a press release, Arkhaven Comics detailed that “in addition to the 17 series that have been announced, an additional 17 comics from Arkhaven Comics, SuperPrumo, and other publishers are already scheduled for release and will be announced over the next week on the date of their first appearance on the new digital comics site.”

Go check it out! We’ll have more details later today. 

THE AWAKENER, from our Brazilian partner Superprumo, is a powerful, hard-hitting series that marks the last pre-launch announcement. It will join CHUCK DIXON’S AVALON in leading the Tuesday schedule on Arktoons. We’re now less than 24 hours away from Impact Day… and everyone who subscribes pre-launch will be provided a Project Asteroid badge on the site. You can still subscribe at Arkhaven Comics. 

And the amazing thing is that Arktoons is already making an impact on the comics industry… but more about that tomorrow.

CHUCK DIXON’S AVALON, a superhero series set in the world of Alt-Hero written by The Legend Chuck Dixon, leads the Tuesday comics on Arktoons. #arkhaven #comics

T-Minus One and counting to Impact. There is still time to subscribe to Arktoons pre-launch at Arkhaven Comics. Note that anyone who subscribes pre-launch will be eligible for a Project Asteroid badge at Social Galactic.

The dark, vengeance-filled lethal action of GUN GHOUL, from Dark Legion Comics, is also featured as a Monday series on Arktoons. You can subscribe to Arktoons pre-launch at Arkhaven Comics. 

Partial schedules for six days have been announced. Which day are you most anticipating?

• WED: Hammer of Freedom, Midnight’s War
• THU: Ascendant, A Throne of Bones
• FRI: Shade, Hypergamouse
• SAT: Quantum Mortis, Clockwork Dancer
• SUN: Swan Knight Saga, Chicago Typewriter
• MON: The Cosmic Warrior, Gun Ghoul